As a follow up after buying a book on asian ink painting (you can check Asian Ink Painting on Amazon's catalog for one that suits you), I installed Asian Paintings (author link) on my iPod Touch. I will probably write a complete review sometime soon, as for now, you can see two paintings I have done. The standard bamboo thing Van Gogh's shoes Related posts: ParseList(

I got this book for Christmas (more or less), and started to read and draw from it a few days ago. It is amazing what small hints can do to a messy drawing. The barrel, in particular, started as a messy outline (from the barrel in the book) and the final result looks pretty convincing (for me, at least).First drawingSecond drawingThird drawingFourth drawingFifth drawing